diff --git a/PVE/Ceph/Services.pm b/PVE/Ceph/Services.pm
index 5340f5fc..ca06d6e8 100644
--- a/PVE/Ceph/Services.pm
+++ b/PVE/Ceph/Services.pm
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ sub broadcast_ceph_versions {
 		return; # up to date, nothing to do so avoid (not exactly cheap) broadcast
 	    }
 	}
+	# FIXME: remove with 8.0 (or 7.2, its not _that_ bad) - for backward compat only
+	PVE::Cluster::broadcast_node_kv("ceph-version", $version);
+
 	my $node_versions = {
 	    version => {
 		str => $version,